 In all the municipal corporations dealt with by the act, the town council came to consist of a mayor, aldermen and councillors, and the councils were given like powers, being divided into those with and those without a commission of the peace.The Commissions of the Peace were also an instrument of reform.Many Boroughs had borough courts of the previous oligarchies of Mayor and Aldermen, advised by a Recorder, these were abolished with the magistrates being appointed as per in the counties – many indeed were supposedly 'county boroughs'.